Carl, Compression will reduce the amount of information that has to be passed, causing the performance of the network to appear to be better. (However, the price you pay is additional CPU cycles on both ends.) What are the symptoms of the problem? Is it merely the initial connection that seems to be slow or does the X11 forwarding just generally slow? > Not that I know of (I assume you have to ask for compression, i.e.) > ssh -C -lclundst server.unl.edu > Will compression help/hurt? (See how little I sometimes know...:( ) > > Carl > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:41, J.R. Wessels wrote: > > > > You using compression with the forwarding in ssh? > > > > > > ---- > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE